Microsoft 365 Backup

In the Ultra Transcenders books

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Each book explains Microsoft 365 Backup in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• Microsoft Online Services Program

  Signing up for Azure directly on the website, as a free, pay-as-you-go or Visual Studio subscriber customer, gives you this type of billing account. There are no departments or invoice sections; it simply holds subscriptions.

• OneDrive

  Every licensed Microsoft 365 user is given private cloud storage here for work files, which sync across their devices. Data for a department or the whole organisation belongs in SharePoint, not here.

• Backup and restore

  Key Vault feature producing an encrypted blob of a stored object; restoring it works only into a vault within the same subscription and the same Azure geography as the original.

• Express restore points

  Recommended for restoring entire sites or accounts, these are a speedier restore point option within Microsoft 365 Backup for SharePoint and OneDrive. Exchange does not offer them.

• Standard deployment type

  A Foundry deployment type billed per token that keeps processing of prompts and responses inside the Azure geography of the resource, meeting data residency needs at lower volumes.

Related terms

• Backup SLA Compliance

  Microsoft 365 backup report showing what percentage of an organisation's objects are covered, measured against a target you set.

• Microsoft 365 Backup Administrator

  An Entra role for the person who looks after Microsoft 365 Backup in full, from policy creation to restoring SharePoint, OneDrive and Exchange Online content.

• Predefined dashboard

  A ready-made Web Client dashboard covering vSphere, Hyper-V, Veeam Backup & Replication or Microsoft 365 backup. Unlike user-built dashboards, these are public unless changed.

• Protected Objects

  Microsoft 365 backup report: any user, team, site or group with a usable restore point inside the RPO counts as protected.